David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ One sentence of Drelincourt’s letter (addressed to Pastor Stouppe) , fully represents the advice which the pastors offered:— “God entrusts at this day your Presbyterians, the gentlemen now in power, with the honour and reputation of our churches. For, if without the intervening of any foreign power, they recal this Prince, and set him in his throne, they acquire to themselves and to their posterity an immortal glory, and stop their mouths for ever who charge us falsely as enemies to royalty.” ”

“ In this dilemma the aid of the French Protestant pastors was solicited; and a few of them wrote letters to the Presbyterian ministers of England, in which they asserted Charles’s unwavering Protestantism.
The kind-hearted divines looked upon a nominally Protestant king as a figure that they would gladly see on the throne of France, and for which England might be envied. They could not allow themselves to believe that the only august person of this description, whom they had ever seen, could prove to be an impostor. They were also glad to come forward as acknowledged advocates of royalty. ”

“ The first letter is from Professor Le Moyne (dated at Leyden, 3d September 1680) , who, after combatting the man of straw “that a man cannot be saved in the Church of England,” supposes, on the ground that the Thirty-Nine Articles are sound, that the ritual and offices of the subscribers must also be essentially pure and innocent ”